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 Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by larchy on Sat Nov 15th at 8:52am 2008

Easy to do actually smiley Ask Gwil/Riven first though smiley



I'm a bit hampered on doing much with the site right now, but think I've found a way around my connection issues which are b0rking ftp. I've uploaded the small fixes I made last week to the forum code so that backslashes shouldn't disappear in posts anymore - \ - and pressing the "quote" button won't result in an error when you try to submit a post. Deleting should be ok too now.



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Posted by larchy on Sat Nov 15th at 10:00am 2008

Ok... attempt 804762 at getting rid of slashes correctly...


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 Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Gwil on Sat Nov 15th at 10:59am 2008

I'd be more inclined to do a mass email marketing campaign at the turn of the new year - about the time we could probably (i need to arrange something with Riven/larchy first!) get shot of the god awful Globat. Also by that time I will have an empty schedule work wise so can get back to doing some good here!



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Posted by G4MER on Sat Nov 15th at 1:48pm 2008

I have to say I just love the new web page.. Who ever did the colors and the header should be given a big hug or a million dollars or something, cause he/she did an outstanding job. smiley smiley smiley

Good work getting the Slashes back in line.. ( get it? ) / ~yay!



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Posted by Riven on Sat Nov 15th at 9:03pm 2008

Yea, the new look deserves a lot more credit! -Here's a crown for ya! smiley

But on a more serious note, anyone wanna make a donation? (perhaps we could add a donation button on the front page, or on the profile control panels) If we're gonna try and move the Pit to a new host, it's gonna cost some muhnay -lol.


No, but seriously, contact Gwil or me if you're interested...


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 Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Myrk- on Wed Nov 19th at 10:13pm 2008

I'm not a fan of this new site. The colours, arrangement, it doesn't please my eyes. Not to sound like a bastard smiley

Reminds me of the older site, one before the last. Also wheres all the old interesting gubbinz? Lep used to hide loads of random stuff on the pit and have history pages and such... The whole site is buggy too, and the general formatting looks like every page has errors on it. Generally one would perfect the newer site before ditching the old- I did watch this process many times.


-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-



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Posted by ReNo on Wed Nov 19th at 11:00pm 2008

Never did somebody better suit their signature smiley

Hows things though Myrk, good to see you back. What new?



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Posted by Dark Tree on Mon Nov 24th at 9:13pm 2008

ok. Clicky: http://www.snarkpit.net/index.php?s=downloads&cat=6&game=1

Do a mouseover on the blank image for HLCC 1.4 Half-Life utility. there is a link in the decription. How do I click that link? this should be fixed.

Also, like Myrk, I do not like the layout. Good colors, but the layout should be more user friendly. What my HUGE suggestion would be to entirely change the "MAPS" page. I really really really really really don't like it's layout. Its huge, bulky, inefficient, confusing, the works. I really really really really really think it should look and feel more like the downloads page. The preview images of the maps on the maps page should match the size of the map preview pictures on the main page. They are just way too big.

I don't have a whole layout scheme thought up, but in general, it would be nice if the layout wasn't so heavy to take in and download and browse.... anything you can do to simplify everything on the maps page to make it more in listable format.

Just giving my 2 cents.



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Tue Nov 25th at 9:59pm 2008

I'm having some issues with the map download section as well. Under the HLDM map section I can't seem to find any search, which isn't the worst thing in the world except that sorting by any criteria doesn't seem to work. If I'm gonna have to sift through a ton of garbage maps that should never have been uploaded in the first place it would be nice if I could do it alphabetically instead of randomly (or by when it was uploaded which seems like the default and only sorting working). This is while using firefox.



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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Nov 27th at 5:36pm 2008

Hey Reno, life goes OK, I work as a CAD/Graphics technician kinda for a major construction firm (8th largest in the world actually). Basically I do the real life mapping now, not games.

As for this site, whats with these problems not getting sorted? Sorry, but these forums have had a graphical error for at least a month, it can't be that hard to fix it. Also the formatting, cumon, it looks rubbish! The fade at the top? Looks like a website from 1997... fair does that is the release date of HL1, but still, isn't a new site meant to be an upgrade?

Like I said before, shame on you new Snarkpit owners/runners for releasing this new site without even fully testing it. If you need help testing things and opinion on anything just gimme a prod, I'm glad to help, but it annoys me that this new site is taking forever to complete, and looks crap. Sorry, but I'm not gunna lie to save peoples feelings.


-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-



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Posted by Gwil on Thu Nov 27th at 5:48pm 2008

Sites have to be live to be tested.. sorry if you don't like it Myrk but constructive criticism won't be answered when it is delivered with all the subtlety of a housebrick through the front window.



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Posted by tnkqwe on Fri Nov 28th at 3:49pm 2008

Remember the old Pit's falling menus?When your mouse is over the maps,forums...a falling menu comes out.That way every body can surf more fastly from one place of the Pit to another place.


Never think about bad things!
TNKqwe:The New Killer qwe

I am Engineer - Play Free Online Games

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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Nov 28th at 9:33pm 2008

I had to disable the drop down menu because I was using Firefox. smiley


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Posted by tnkqwe on Sat Nov 29th at 3:22pm 2008

Quoting "aaron_da_killa"
I had to disable the drop down menu because I was using Firefox. smiley

It worked for Opera smiley
Only one thing:I am using Opera because my big brother thinks that Firefox is based on Internet Explorer,and you know what Internet Explorer is.


Never think about bad things!
TNKqwe:The New Killer qwe

I am Engineer - Play Free Online Games

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Posted by Le Chief on Sat Nov 29th at 10:41pm 2008

Nuh, Firefox isn't based off Internet Explorer, I don't know where your brother got that information from. And besides, I don't think Internet Explorer is that bad anyway.


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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Dec 4th at 11:51pm 2008

Someone really needs to implement a size limitation on avatar images it seems.
Anywho's, happy holidays to all.

Orph



The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by Gwil on Fri Dec 5th at 12:24am 2008

Good point, Orph! Zein had one that took up nearly a whole page recently! I shall ask larchy if he can do anything, pro-bona.

Re: Video card - my apologies multiplied a thousand; caught up in college life and day to day business I completely forgot. I shall raid my supplies tomorrow when I have a free period and let you know the 10-4 ASAP.



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Posted by larchy on Fri Dec 5th at 3:22pm 2008

They should have been resized when you upload them if they're omgxboxhuge, but I'd forgotten to include the file that handles all that in that part of the script - sorry, 'tis fixed now! I also fixed tnkqwe's avatar manually... there shouldn't be any future issues though.

Search! Search should now be working! I've added some extra magic beans to it so it should be pretty decent now - there is even a mis-spelled words suggest thingy!



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Posted by larchy on Sun Dec 7th at 3:05pm 2008

I have been working on a better layout for the maps section of the site:



Descriptions are shown via overlays on the images on a mouseover, as seen above on the museum map (bottom right)


Part of the reason the maps page is the way it currently is is because of the way the games/mods were set up in the database. I've taken a simpler approach of detaching 'mods' from links with 'games', which should make it easier for you guys to keep your content organised. As you can see from the dropdown selection, each mod/game has its own entry (the names can be cleaned up once everything is sorted... they're just verbose right now to temporarily maintain correlation with the older tables.



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Posted by Fjorn on Wed Dec 17th at 7:18am 2008

I have 2 issues with this new site.


The first, and this is more of a convenience thing, there doesn't appear to be a "jump to newest post" feature.

The second, and this greatly annoys me, is that the site, particularly the title bar up top, seems to be assuming that everyone uses a 1280x1024 resolution and those that don't(IE, me) have to scroll to the side to see the entire site.




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